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Brian Truitt, USA TODAY

Nearly 50 years after he put "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocius" and "Chim Chim Cher-ee" into the pop-culture vernacular with his brother Robert, Richard Sherman is still a stalwart champion of all things Mary Poppins.

And on the new Blu-ray edition of the 1964 Disney classic out Tuesday, Sherman, 85, has a meeting of the mutual admiration society with him and Jason Schwartzman, the actor who plays him in the upcoming Saving Mr. Banks.